Never was Ministry so thoroughly weak and so wretchedly unfortunate.
It would have been very weak in us, then, to put ourselves to the trouble of attempting to please these people.
All is gray shadow--a weak and irregular remembrance--an indistinct regathering of feeble pleasures and phantasmagoric pains.
He was especially indignant at any act of oppression of the weak by the strong, and not seldom got into trouble by his championship of the injured in such cases among the boys of the neighborhood.
The golden lyre of yore was worse than dumb; it emitted false and weak sounds, the strings had become relaxed, the golden tongue alone remained.
I have always heard that when virtue abides in a weak and feeble vessel, and is assailed by its strong and puissant opposite, it especially deserves praise, and shows itself to be what it really is.
You may be sure, ladies, that there are but few husbands whom a wife's love and patience cannot win at last, unless they be harder even than stone, which weak and yielding water will in time make hollow.
And although weak and powerless for revenge, she placed her hopes in Him who is the true Judge, and who suffers no wickedness to go unpunished; and, relying upon His love alone, was minded to spend the rest of her life in her hermitage.
He had supported well the terrible strain for the last forty-eight hours, and as he had run through the forest he had not noticed how it had told upon him; but now that he was safe among his friends he felt as weak as a child.
Some have been bought with his gold, some of the weak fools dream that Carthage can be great simply as a trading power without army or navy, and think only of the present advantage they would gain by remission of taxation.
Her smile calms anger, and it is she who teaches us to laugh at fools and sinners whom, but for her, we might be weak enough to hate.
They do not see where we got our knowledge; and while they tramp on in their clumsy way, we wheel and fly, and dart hither and thither, and seize with ready eye all the weak points, like Saladin in the desert.
I am weak and cowardly, and you are not strong enough to dominate my weakness and control my vacillating character.
By this means he set many of the facts in a very ridiculous light, and might have hurt weak minds if his work had been published, but it never was.
But Little John was weak of fence, And his strength began to fail; Whilst the Friar's blows came thundering down, Like the strokes of a threshing-flail.
Appeared the honoured veteran; but weak seemed man and horse.
She was in time, then--only--only somehow now her limbs seemed to have become weak and powerless.
And then, for a long time she stood there by the door, a little weak with the revulsion of relief upon her, her hands pressed hard against her temples, staring unseeingly about the garret.
But she no longer feltweak or disquieted; nervous excitement sustained her, and gave her strength and presence of mind.
Perhaps he felt that the knapsack and musket were too heavy for his little shoulders, and that he was, as yet, too weak to become a soldier.
She almost pitied the king--the government--to whom a weak woman and an invalid youth could cause such fear.
She knew that her destiny must now be fulfilled, and that she was too weak to offer any resistance.
But Marie Louise had remained deaf to all these pressing and energetic representations, and the queen had not been able to inspire her young and weak sister-in-law with her own resolution.
So many factors govern the success of hardening that often this succession of bad work has been actually overcome without those interested realizing what was the weak point in their system of treatment.
Eventually, in gray cast iron, we have properties which would be expected of wrought iron, whose tough metallic texture was shot through with flakes of slippery, weak graphite.
To accomplish this the sample should be polished after quenching and then washed with a weak solution of nitric acid in alcohol, whereupon the harder points will show up darker than the softer areas.
The principal use of tungsten is in high-speed tool steel, but here a high percentage of manganese is distinctly detrimental, making the steel liable to fire crack, very brittle and weak in the body, less easily forged and annealed.
It is weakin argument, unfair and unjust in its representations, and bitter in tone and temper.
Perverse men, insisting that it still existed, and weak men, mistaking the shadow of former power for the reality, have made arrogant claims in its behalf.
This was armed mediation; but Switzerland was weakand France strong, while the declared object was union, peace, and reconciliation.
Nor was he deterred because the provision might be offensive to persons of weak nerves.
Thus, the Russia of the Normans completely disappears from the stage, and the few weak reminiscences in which it still outlived itself, dissolve before the terrible apparition of Genghis Khan.
And the Kings of Denmark and Poland were weak enough to serve as instruments to forward the great and ambitious views of the Czar.
Tubby, as he ran his hand over the bony back of the nearest quadruped, and wondered whether so weak looking a horse could long survive under his rather heavy weight.
Red Cross corps, doing temporary work in binding up wounds, and giving stimulants to those who wereweak through loss of blood.
As both of the other scouts were so well acquainted with Tubby's weak points they did not need a dictionary in order to understand what was on his mind.
But Charles the Fat was too weak to hold the reins of government over so vast an area.
The strong built fortress castles, the weak became their vassals.
At that time the Empire was in a very weak condition.
The mighty Pope of small, wiry stature and physically weak had compelled, by the sheer force of the spiritual weapons in his hands, the powerful German ruler to humbly bow before him and beg forgiveness and absolution.
At last, when the piteous wailing had grown weak and intermittent, the instinct of humanity mastered his fears, and he went forth to give a possible succor to the one in need.
Such as were weak were put into the canoes, and those commanded to land that were in them before.
After a pause, a weak boyish smile struggled into his face.
Weak from the effects of the chloroform, his struggles were futile.
The newspapers told it for him when he was too weak and exhausted to deny or affirm.
The patient, too weak to help herself, was lifted upon the scales, where she remained long enough for it to be seen that she weighed seventy-three pounds and eight ounces.
Weak as he was, he succeeded in sitting upon Miss Crouch's head while Linda attempted to secure her arms with the thick veil she had torn from her hat.
I knew a Christian woman who suffered for years withweak sight, and had several operations on both eyes, so that she could only distinguish outlines of different objects.
Through a little door, the Cagots, a proverbial race weak both in body and mind, used to enter for worship.
Do they wish to imitate the English Revolution of 1648, and reproduce the sanguinary times of the unfortunate and weak Charles the First?
With wisdom, knowledge, sense, and power, Thus to lie prostrate at thy feet, And lose them all in one weak hour!
After this cowardly exploit, De Craon fled, and threw himself under the protection of the Duke of Brittany, who, although not his accomplice, was weak enough to take his part.
The close of both these stories is somewhat weak and hurried, and both fail in effect, except when Jasmin reads them himself,--then there appears nothing to be desired.
But with the inconstant and weak generality it doth!
Little, weak castle--murky roof of ignorance--yet is there clear power!
Overmuch light, the weak soul bending aside from Heaven-grace, the fiends gathering to torment and perplex, and were it possible, to defeat light!
Now Sathanas worketh underground and taketh evil mind to evil mind, or often to weak mind, or to mind that was Sathanas’ enemy against whom he useth every springe!
He was weak now and his eyes dazzled, and truly phantasies pageanted before him in sound and line and colour.
The hatred against the Covenant-people, which the [Pg 360] Moabites were too weak openly to exhibit, impelled them to this wicked deed against the king tributary to them.
Similar descriptions of the divine omnipotence, as opposed to unbelief and weak faith, are very numerous; e.
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